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[iamnight.livejournal.com]

So, I did it. After writing a 78,000-word memoir when a friend challenged me on November 3rd, concluding on the 19th, I was so jazzed I decided to just sit down and write a fiction novel. That I did, starting on November 23rd and finishing late last night.

I found it all very gratifying last night, but now I'm too dead tired to feel much. I still have to teach a one-hour adult class tonight, and it's as much a mystery to me as it probably is to you how I'm going to teach a class while not actually awake to do so.

But yay. I did it. 78,000 words on the first, 67,000 in the second, within the span of four weeks. It's like Douglas Adams wrote about flying - you just have to do it before you really know what you're doing, and pretend you're doing something else all the while...

Congrats, everyone, and good luck those who are pulling the last-minute run!

- d

p.s. How's everyone approaching editing? How long - if at all - are you planning on waiting?

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[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Simply amazing. Congrats!

I don't think I'll be editing much. The only thing I've done so far after writing the 50K words was to break it up into chapters.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I'm taking a few days to let things process a bit and get some feedback. I will probably start editing again Weds night.

[dizzii.livejournal.com]

Editing is something that's constant when I write. Because I was scrambling to finish before the deadline, the 51k or so that I have sitting on my computer, is going to be nitpicked and jabbed and poked and prodded until I'm happy with it, because probably 25% of it was just written to get me past 50k and is far below my normal standards of what I'd write.
But that might just be me. :P

It's Not Just You

[gm-ilanya.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how I'm going to approach it too. I edit as I go along (because sometimes thing I write are really bad when they finally get to the computer) and I know stuff that's sitting in the computer right now needs some heavily editing. I don't plan on joining NaNoEdMo since it quite likely is going to take more than 50 hours to edit the beast. Besides, while I reached 50k, the story isn't done anyway so there's still more writing to put into it.

Re: It's Not Just You

[dizzii.livejournal.com]

My story is far from complete at 52k and counting, and so I'm editing and adding on as according.
I'm still in that "Must-Write-NOW" phase when I come home after classes, so editing and continuing on won't be too hard.
NaNoEdMo might be used for later purposes in this story, however, right now I'm not sure.

[deza.livejournal.com]

Nanoedmo is in March, IIRC.

[bloomingflax.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just too much wow for words. That's an amazing amount of words. Congratulations on two incredible feats!

[deed-11.livejournal.com]

Definite congratulations!

I'm doing NaNoEdMo in March - but I think I'll be using it to begin my third draft. As for second draft... I think Christmas break sounds ideal.

Incidentally, I was planning on giving myself a pat on the back and then leaving the novel for dead, because I have no idea how to finish it, but I've changed my mind. I figure I'll do my pre-writing and my editing at the same time. It'll be neat.